The majority of people just don’t bother to think that deep, or like to listen, or like to spend that much time learning new things. Most just assume that learning something new is a natural response, or just too much of a burden.
For instance, when you listen to someone else speak, either by having a face to face conversation, or in a lecture setting, what you’re doing is absorbing as much information as you can by taking mental notes.
Once you begin to age, however, as the brain becomes …